MACBETH by Ernest Bloch Laurent Pillot, Conductor Dona D. Vaughn, Director “The Manhattan School of Music likes to seek out rarities for its student singers, and the school does the Metropolitan Opera, which is reviving Verdi’s classic “Macbeth,” one better with Ernest Bloch’s obscure 1910 adaptation of the same Shakespearean source. Laurent Pillot conducts a staging (more…)

To be or not to be… Rollo Webster has one ambition: to play Hamlet on Broadway. With an inheritance and an acting company, he has two thirds of what he needs to realize his dream. If only he had any talent. A delightful comedy from 1920 by songwriter and playwright Clare Beecher Kummer that celebrates (more…)

To be or not to be… Rollo Webster has one ambition: to play Hamlet on Broadway. With an inheritance and an acting company, he has two thirds of what he needs to realize his dream. If only he had any talent. A delightful comedy from 1920 by songwriter and playwright Clare Beecher Kummer that celebrates (more…)

Immerse yourself in the diverse styles of traditional shamisen music! The instrument, originally from China, reached Japan in the 16th century, where it underwent changes in shape, size and sound. The shamisen has become a central element in Japan’s unique performing arts and entertainment culture, featured in kabuki and bunraku theaters, salon, folk and vaudeville (more…)

A small black community in rural Appalachia. Pitbull country. Mary and her son Dipper live in a trailer a few miles from their bible-belt, war-loving, dog-fighting neighbors. Despite being the community’s pariah, Mary is at peace making and selling wine.  However, when a prize-winning pit bull is slaughtered on the Fourth of July, Mary’s solitary existence (more…)